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I want to be able to treat $ z$ and its complex conjugate as independent variables, so that for instance $ \partial (z\bar z)/\partial z = \bar z$ . When I try to do this in Mathematica, via D[z Conjugate[z], z] it returns $ z1$ Conjugate$ ^\prime(z1)+z1^*$ , because it treats $ \bar z$ asRead more